Event Comment: [This was
Mrs Abington's 1st appearance on the stage since 12 Feb. 1790, except for 14 June 1797, when she spoke an epilogue at a charity benefit.] "Her former
Beatrice was a chaste, animated, unaffected
and captivating performance; but her Beatrice of this night was, for the greater part, languid
and unattractive. Her deportment, however, is easy
and graceful; but her person is too big
and heavy to give any effect to the more gay
and sprightly scenes. We conceive it to be the height of folly
and imprudence in her to come forward in the present advanced period of her existence;
and that too, with a person so ill calculated for the department,
and attempt characters which dem
and all the vigour
and activity of youth" (
Monthly Visitor, Oct. 1797, p. 352). [Address by
George Colman, ynger (
London Chronicle, 7 Oct.).] Receipts: #348 2s. (336.18; 11.14)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Performance Comment: Benedick-Lewis; Leonato-Hull; Don Pedro-Clarke; Claudio-Toms; Balthazar (with a song)-Townsend; Don John-Waddy; Antonio-Thompson; Borachio-Farley; Conrade-Claremont; Friar-Davenport; Verges-Simmons; Dogberry-Munden; Town Clerk-Powel; Hero-Mrs Mountain; Margaret-Miss Leserve; Ursula-Mrs Platt; Beatrice-Mrs Abington.Related Works
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble
Afterpiece Title: Diamond Cut Diamond
Dance: II: Masquerade Dance- incident to the Play
Entertainment: Monologue.Preceding: a new Occasional Address-Murray